Kanye West's 'Runaway' Film To Premiere On MTV

MC's debut flick will air on TV and online Saturday, October 23, at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a live Q&A.
By Mawuse Ziegbe


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Kanye West's film debut, "Runaway," has been lauded as "ambitious" and "great looking" by the chosen few who have had the opportunity to check out an early screening of the flick. Now, Yeezy's fans will be able to judge for themselves when the rapper's visual effort premieres on MTV and BET on Saturday, October 23.

The film, which is about 40 minutes long, will be broadcast simultaneously on both networks and MTV2 at 8 p.m. ET. Fans can also catch the film via live stream on MTV.com, BET.com and VH1.com. Directly following the premiere, West will helm a live Q&A session from the MTV headquarters in Times Square. Viewers who miss the premiere on October 23 can catch an encore presentation on VH1 on October 26 at 12 a.m. ET.

The flick has been dubbed a "visual accompaniment" to Kanye's forthcoming LP, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (which drops November 22). Right before the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where 'Ye debuted "Runaway,"   MTV gave fans a taste of the movie with an exclusive preview during the VMA pre-show. The clip featured prancing deer, a nimble dancer and Kanye West hauling away a woman swathed in feathers from a fiery explosion.

A few days after the VMAs, Yeezy explained the concept of the film and said he related to the movie's theme of redemption.

"It's the story of a phoenix fallen to Earth, and I make her my girlfriend, and people discriminate against her and eventually she has to burn herself alive and go back to her world," he told New York magazine. "I've been feeling the idea of the phoenix. It's been in my heart for a while. It's maybe parallel to my career. I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person."

Are you looking forward to checking out Kanye West's film "Runaway"? Let us know in the comments!

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Roy Halladay, Jimmy Rollins Among Phillies to Show Cracks in Game 1

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Roy HalladayPHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies were on such a great run that you forgot that the Liberty Bell isn't Philadelphia's only local treasure with a crack in it.

The upstart San Francisco Giants did enough on Saturday night to reveal a fracture or two in the defending National League champions, and the NLCS is looking a lot more interesting as a result.

Unbeaten in their previous seven openers of a postseason series, the Phillies fell 4-3 in their ballpark, where Giants ace Tim Lincecum outpitched Roy Halladay in Game 1 and Jimmy Rollins' hitting struggles became more significant.

West Coast Bias was guilty of thinking the Phils nearly unbeatable. So often have I watched NL West teams crumble against them in recent Octobers.

Saturday brought not only perfect weather for October baseball, but reminders of the Phillies' vulnerabilities.

Halladay's angry green eyes are what I'll remember most.

There were also two baseballs soaring into the left-field seats, each struck by Giants No. 8 hitter Cody Ross, both off a fastball from Halladay. Plus, the baseballs that vanished near home plate, disappearing underneath Phillies bats when Lincecum threw his deadly changeups.

 

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Coldplay, Led Zeppelin Album Covers Featured On New British Stamps

Album art from Pink Floyd, Blur and David Bowie also included.
By James Montgomery


Coldplay's new British stamps
Photo: Royal Mail

On Thursday (January 7), the U.K.'s Royal Mail unveiled a series of 10 new stamps, honoring the most iconic album covers of the past 40 years.

The albums featured in the new series are the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed, Led Zeppelin's IV, David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, The Clash's London Calling, New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies, Primal Scream's Screamadelica, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, Blur's Parklife and — the most recent album on to make the cut — Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head.

Meant to honor "the most potent graphic images of modern times, many of which have provided a visual soundtrack to people's lives," the series is the end result of a lengthy research process by the Royal Mail, who looked through thousands of album covers by British artists before deciding on the final list. And, during a Wednesday night BBC Radio broadcast, it was revealed that the queen herself actually approved each design.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page — who helped design the cover for IV — was on hand to celebrate the release of the stamps and recalled the mysterious nature of the album's iconic imagery.

"Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him," he said. "That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time."

Of course, any great honor is befitting of an equally great contest, so, on the same day the stamps were made available to the general public, Coldplay decided to give one of their Rush of Blood stamps away. In a message on their official site, the band held a contest to send one lucky fan "a letter using a Coldplay stamp, postmarked with today's issue date."

"We visited our local post office earlier today and bought some of the Coldplay stamps," the message read. "Very nice they are too."

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Are Missing Versus Ads Clever Viral Marketing or Thievery?

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October is the biggest month of the year for hockey interest -- aside from June. The sport is back and so are all the fans, at least until their team gets knocked out or the monotony of an 82-game schedule loses some of the shorter attention spans. Understandably, this is when a lot of the marketing campaigns kick in.

Versus, the cable rights holders for nationally televised hockey, is certainly going to get in on the action. As they have in the past, they've been contacting bloggers trying to get them to promote Versus programming. In years past, they've offered Versus apparel or merchandise in return. There are no freebies this year but they may have come up with an interesting angle.

 

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